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   roc | Jun 15, 2012 10:20pm | #1

   One book eh ? Takes a library to scratch the surface.

   Oh man your question is right up my ally.  The answer is going to be messy and expensive however. Here it is :

   Buy up a full set of Fine Woodworking paper magazines.  The online and DVD seems to have some holes in it so I don't know what all is missing from those but the magazine has done a great job.

   Then buy these books :

   http://www.amazon.com/With-Wakened-Hands-Furniture-Students/dp/1892836076/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809206&sr=1-8&keywords=james+krenov

   http://www.amazon.com/A-Cabinetmakers-Notebook-Woodworkers-Library/dp/0941936597/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809238&sr=1-1&keywords=james+krenov

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Soul-Tree-Woodworkers-Reflections/dp/0870119036/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809261&sr=1-9&keywords=james+krenov

   http://www.amazon.com/Sam-Maloof-Woodworker/dp/0870119109/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809295&sr=1-1&keywords=sam+maloof+woodworker

   and don't underestimate this book it is great, great, great, for telling the tale of an apprentice fine woodworker.

   http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Woodworking-Tools-Tradition-Spirit/dp/0941936465/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809541&sr=1-2&keywords=toshio+odate

   lets not forget the tale of the education of a great and ground breaking finisher

   http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Wood-Finishing-Charonne-woodworking/dp/091880406X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339809695&sr=1-3&keywords=george+frank

   Find some old mag articles about :

   Harold Ionson

   George Reid

   John McAlister

   If any of you gentlemen are reading this I would encourage you to please get your stories into book form for the future crafts people:

   Frank Klausz

   Philip Lowe

   Mario Rodriguez

   Lonnie Bird

   Wendlell Castle

   Allan Breed

   Christian Becksvoort

   Yeung Chan

   Scott Schmidt

   John McAlister (intentionally listed twice here ! )

   last but not least by ANY means . . . Paul Schurch

   Sorry to leave the Women out . . . how about

   Kristina Madsen (who studied under David Powell (there is another guy to read about )).

   and

   Nora Hall

   And somebody needs to tell these peoples histories that have passed on :

   Eugene Langdon

   Tag Frid (or is he still alive ? Not working that is for sure ).

   There are so many I left out. I am going crazy.  I gotta stop.

   One book ? Oh nooooo

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   sk2tobin | Jun 18, 2012 08:24am | #3

   What a list!

   Roc,

   I have tried several times to reply to your post but for some reason it keeps setting off the spam filter.  Please know that I appreciate your response and I will add a lot of those books to my wishlist.

   Thanks,

   Nick

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   sk2tobin | Jun 19, 2012 07:26am | #5

   One Last Try

   I think I figured out why it wasn't letting me post... I was writing out the titles of the books and maybe that was setting of the filter?  Anyways, I will try to do it like you did, by posting links to the books.  I have read the second and fourth books on your list and they were both excellent reads.  The first and third will definitely make it onto my wish list along with the toolbox and workbench books you mentioned. 

   I also found this one when I was looking around online:

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Makers-Hand-Edward-Cooke/dp/0878466630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340104554&sr=8-1&keywords=the+makers+hand

   It looks like a good read as it covers almost all of the major makers from the past couple of generations.

   Again, thank you for your list.  It will take me forever to read all of those books but at least I won't have to worry about what to say when people ask me what I want for christmas...

   Nick

2. 
   roc | Jun 15, 2012 11:36pm | #2

   On further consideration

   I have come up with these two books:

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Toolbox-Book-Craftsmans-Cabinets/dp/1561582727/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339816647&sr=1-1&keywords=the+tool+box+book

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Workbench-Book-Workbenches-Woodworking/dp/1561582700/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339816848&sr=1-1&keywords=the+workbench+book

   Either one might fill the one book rule.  Talks about a lot of woodworkers and their work in a manageable volume.  Doesn't show much of their work but talks about how they work.

   PS: the tool box book talks about Andy Rae.  He studied under Frank Klausz.  That is his astonishingly nice tool cabinet on the cover. ( I stupidly left him out of the lists above.  What I know of him is mostly from the tool box book and an article or two in FWW magazine ). A seriously well trained and talented woodworker indeed !

3. 
   roc | Jun 19, 2012 04:08am | #4

   Hi Nick

   Thanks .

   We are fortunate to have so many great sources for info.

   Enjoy.